TY  - JOUR
A1  - Budsky, Alexander
A1  - Wassenburg, Jasper A.
A1  - Mertz-Kraus, Regina
A1  - Spötl, Christoph
A1  - Jochum, Klaus Peter
A1  - Gibert, Luis
A1  - Scholz, Denis
T1  - Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records
Y1  - 2019
VL  - 46
IS  - 15
SP  - 9042
EP  - 9053
JF  - Geophysical Research Letters
DO  - 10.1029/2019GL084009
DO  - 10.23689/fidgeo-4801
N2  - The climate of the western Mediterranean was characterized by a strong precipitation gradient during the Holocene driven by atmospheric circulation patterns. The scarcity of terrestrial paleoclimate archives has precluded exploring this hydroclimate pattern during Marine Isotope Stages 5 to 3. Here we present stable carbon and oxygen isotope records from three flowstones from southeast Iberia, which show that Dansgaard/Oeschger events were associated with more humid conditions. This is in agreement with other records from the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and western Europe, which all responded in a similar way to millennial-scale climate variability in Greenland. This general increase in precipitation during Dansgaard/Oeschger events cannot be explained by any present-day or Holocene winter atmospheric circulation pattern. Instead, we suggest that changes in sea surface temperature played a dominant role in determining precipitation amounts in the western Mediterranean.
UR  - http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/9147
ER  -